Full Description
Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and their broader communities are informed by their social and cultural contexts. Adopting a keywords-driven approach, Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with an introduction to the concepts and approaches that have animated medical anthropology over the course of the twentieth century. Authors put these keywords into dialogue with their ethnographic and archival research to demonstrate how these concepts can be expanded to address contemporary phenomena related to health, disease, and disability. Mapping Medical for the Twenty-First Century provides newcomers to medical anthropology with a robust introduction to the discipline, while providing experienced readers a set of chapters that explore the discipline in novel and exciting ways.
Contents
Introduction: Topographies of Medicine: Bodies, Institutions, and Infrastructures
Part I Medicine's Infrastructures Medicine and Everyday Life: Transformations of the Life Course Through Biomedical Encounters
1 Sickness, Illness, Body Politic, Planetary Health
2 Disability, Development, Potentiality, Personhood
3 Acute, Chronic, Suffering, Cure
4 Diagnosis, Symptom, Treatment, Care
5 Hospital, Clinic, Expertise, Education
Part II Medicine's Bodies
Making and Manipulating Bodies
6 Mental, Somatic, Neuro-
7 Genes, Race, Nature, Phenotype
8 Drugs, Embodiment, Harm, Pleasure
9 Health, Value, Technology, Prosthetic, Pharmaceutical
Part III Medicine's Institutions Institutional Narratives of Medicine
10 The State, Colonialism, Humanitarianism
11 Laboratories, Experiments, Clinical Trials
12 Environment, Tropical Disease, Structural Inequality, Public Health
13 Precarity, Exposure, Toxicity, Evidence
14 Governance, Law, Policy, Activism
Notes on Contributors
Index
